Person with legal responsibility

Person in charge of EU relations

Firstname, Surname:

Ms
Albane Siramy

Position:

Director for Environmental Affairs

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation:

ACE provides a European platform for beverage carton manufacturers and their European paperboard suppliers to benchmark and profile cartons as renewable, recyclable and low carbon packaging solutions. Engaging with stakeholders and partners seeking high environmental stewardship, it contributes expertise to EU policy, legislation and standard‐setting.

ACE members include beverage carton producers Tetra Pak, SIG Combibloc and Elopak; they develop, manufacture and market systems for the processing, packaging and distribution of food, and produce packaging material at 20 plants in Europe. About 98% of the paperboard used by ACE members in beverage cartons in Europe is produced by Stora Enso in Skoghall (Sweden) and Imatra (Finland), and BillerudKorsnäs in Gävle and Frövi (Sweden), who are also members of ACE. These paper mills and the beverage carton manufacturers in ACE together employ close to 30,000 people worldwide.

The organisation's fields of interests are:

European

Specific activities covered by the Register

Main EU initiatives, policies and legislative files followed by the organisation:

Directive 94/62/EC Packaging and Packaging Waste Proposal to revise Directives 2008/98/EC on waste, 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging wasteCircular Economy PackageRegulation (EU) No 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market (EU Timber Regulation)Regulation EC 1935/2004 on food contact materials

Relevant policy implementation, public relations and communication activities such as projects, events and publications:

- ACE 20th anniversary celebration on 4th December 2014 - Organisation of a side event at Green Week on 5 June 2014 with WWF and Unilever on sustainable sourcing - ACE external newsletters with contributions from key external stakeholders- Annual reporting from Proforest of ACE Chain-of-Custody Global Commitment on wood fiber used in the manufacturing of beverage cartons